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THE STARTING POINT. HOW REV. DR. TALMAGE WOULD EVANGELIZE AMERICA. Wants an Outpoutring of the 1oly spirit at the NatIonal Capital--Would He of i neal culable Value to Christianity--. New Awakening. WASHIN GToN, Feb. 9.--The audience of Dr. Talmage is thronged with the chief men of the natiou and people from all parts. making this sermon most timely. An hour and a half be fore the.doors open the people gather in the stieet and policemen keep the way open for the pewholders. The text chosen for today's discourse was Luke xxiv, -4, "Beginning at Jerusa lem." "There it is," said the driver, and we all instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to cafch the first glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. Tnat city, coroneted with temple-and palace and radiant. whether l6oked up at from the valley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at from ad joining hills, was the capital of a great nation. Clouds of incense had hovered over it. Chariots of kings had rolled through it. Battering rams of enemies had thundered -gainst it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was mar tyred. Most interesting city ever built since masonry rung its first trow el, or plumb line measured its first wall, or royalty swung its first scepter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom Washington is to our own country-the capital, the place to which all the tribes come up,. thegreat nationiil ieart whose throb sends life or death through the body politic clear out to the geographical extremities. What the resurrected Christ sail in my text to his disciples when he or dered them to start on the work of tion, "beginning at Jerusa "em"it seems to me God says now in his1rd'v1ideice to tens of thousands of Christians in this city. btart for the evangelization of America, "begin ning at Washington." America is go ing to be taken for God. If you do not believe it, take your -hat now and leave and give room to some man or woman who does believe it. As sure ly! is God lives. aid he is able to do as he savs he will, this country will be evangelized from the mouth of the Po tomac 'to the mouth of the Oregon. from the Highlands of the Navesink to the Golden Horn, fron Baffin's bay o the gulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk -every lake, whether bestormed or placid, and be transfigured on ev ery mountain, and the night skies, whether they hover over groves of mahnolia or over Alaskan glacier, abaT be filled with angelic overture of "glory to God and good will to men." Again and as ain does the old book announce that all the earth shall see the salvation of God, and-as the-great er includes the lesser that takes Amer ica gloriously in. Can you not see that if America is not taken for God by his consecrated people it will be taken for Apollyon? The forces en gaced on both sides are so tremendous Mt it cannot be a drawn battle. It is coming, the Armageddon! Either the American Sabbath will perish and this nation be handed over to Herods andHildebrands and Diocletians and Neros baleful power, and Alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled up throne of beer barrels, his mouth foaming with domestic and national curse, and crimne will lift its unhindered knife of assasination, and rattle keys of worst burglary, and wave torch of widest conflagration, and our cities be turned into Sodoms, 'waiting for Almighty tempetsof fire and brimstone, and one tida wave of abomination will surge across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take on. more sanctity, and the newspapers will become apocalyptic wings of benediction, and penitentia riesil Ub~ abandoned for lack of oc cupants, and holiness and happiness, twmn son and daughter .of heaven, shall walk through the-land, -and Christ reign ove~r this nation either in person or by agiency .so glorious that the whole country will be one clear, resounding echo of heaven. - It will be one or other. By the throne of him who liveth forever and ever I declare it will be the latter. If the Lord will help me, as he always does-blessed be his glorious name-I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun at Washington would have a tendency to bring the whole continent to Goli and before-this century closes. Wmliam the Conquerer ordered the -eurfew, the custom of ringing the bell at midnight, at which all the fires on the hearths were to be banked, and all the lights exting~uished, and all the people retire to thieir pillows. I pray God that the curfew of this century may not be sounded, and the fires be banked, and the lights extinguished asthie clock strikes the midnight hour that :divides the nineteenth century from the twentieth ,century, until this beloved land, which was to most of us a 6iadle, and which will be to most of us a grave, shall come into the full possession of him who is so glorious that William the Conqueior could not be compared to him, even the One who rideth forth "conquering and to con quer." - - Why would it be especially advan tageous ,if a mighty work of grce started here, "beginning at Washing ton?" First, because this city is on -the border between the north and south. It is , neither northern nor southern. It commingles tue two cli mates. It brings together the two styles of population. It is not only right, but beautiful, that people should have especial love for the latitdide where they were born and brought up. With what loving accentuation the Alabamian speaks of his orange groves! And the man from Masachu setts is sure to let you know that he comes from the land of the Adamses Samuel and John and John Quincy. Did you ever know a Virginian or Ohioan whose face did not brighten when he announced himself from the southern or northern state of presi dents? If a man does not lhke his na tive clime, it is because while he lived there he did not behave well. This capital stands where, by its locality, and its political influence, it stretches forth-one hand- toward the north and the other toward the south, and a mighty work of grace starting here would probably be a national awaken. Georgia would clasp-the hand of New Hampshire, and Maine the hand of .Luisiana, and Ca-lifornia the hand of New York, and say, "Come, let us go up and worship the God of. nations, ~the Christ of Golgotha, the Holy Ghost of the pente costal three thousands." It has often been said that the only way the north and the south wili be bought into complete accord is to have a war with some foreign nation, in which both sections, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be overcome.' Well, if you wait for such a foreign ccnliict, you will wait until all this generation is dead, and perhaps wait forever. The war that will make the sections for get past controversies is a war against unrigh teousness, such as a uni versal religious awakening would de cdare. What we want is a battle for souls, in which about 4,00,000 north erners and southerners shall be on the ame side and shoulder -to shoulder. In no other city on the continent can seh a war ue declhred s. appropr iate lv, fOr all the other great cities are either northern or southern. This is neither. or rather it is both. Again, it would be especially advan tageous if a mighty work of grace started here because more representa tive men are in Washington than in any other city between the oceans. Of course tuere are accidents in poli tics, and occasierally there are men who get into the senate and house of representatives and other important plazes who are fitted for the positions in neither head nor he.rt, but this is exceptional and more exceptional now than in other days. There is not a drunkard in the national legistature, although there were times when Kentucky. Vi ginia, Delaware, Ili nois, Nev York and Massachusets had men in senate or house of representa tives, who went maudlin and stagger ing drunk across those high pIers. Never nobler group of nien sat in s'n ate or house of representatives than sat there yesterday and will sit there tomorrow, while the highest judiciary without exception, has now upon its bench men beyond criticism for good morals and mental endownment. So in all departments of olicial position, with here and there an exception, ate today the brainiest men and most hon orable men of America. Now, sup pose the Holy Ghost power should fall upon this city and these men from all parts of America should suddenly be come pronounced for Christ! Do you say the effect would be electrical? More than that. It would be omnipot ent! Do you say that such learned and potent men are not wrought upon by religious influence? That shows you have not observed what has been going on. Comodore Foote, repre senting the navy: General Grant and Robert E. Lee, representing the north ern and southern armies: Chief Jus tice Chase, representing the supreme court; the Frelinghuysens, Theodore and Frederick, representing the United States senate; William Pennington and scores of others, representing the house of representatives, have surren dered to that gospel which before this winter is out, will in this capital of the American nation, if we are faithful in our prayers and exertions, turn into the kingdom of God men of national and international power, their tongues of elequence becoming the tongues of fire in another Pentecost. Some of us remember 1857, when at the close of the worst monetary dis tress this country has ever felt, com pared with which the hard times of the ast thre years were a boom of pros perity, right on the heels of that com plete prostration came an awakening in which 500,000 people were convert ed in different states of the Union. Do you know where one of its chief powers was demonstrated? In Wash ing ton. Do you know on what street? This street. Do you know in what church? This chrch. I picked up an old book a few days ago and was star tled and thrilled and enchanted to read some words, written at that time by the Washington correspondent to a New York paper. He wrote: "The Frist Presbyterian church can scar e contain the people. Requests are dai ly preferred for an interest in the pray ers offered, and the reading of these forms one of the tenderest and most effective features of the meetings. Particular pains are taken to disclaim and exclude everythmng like sectarian feeling. General astonishment is felt at the unexpected rapidiiy with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are beginning to anticipate the ne cessity of opening another church." Why, my. hearers. not have that again and more than that? There are many thousands more of inhabitants now than then. Besides that, since then are the telephone, with its semiomni presence, and the swift cable car, for assembling the peonle. I believe that the mightiest revival of religion that this city has ever seen is yet to come and the earth will tremble from Cap itoline hill to the boundaries on all sides with the footsteps of God as he comes to awaken and pardon and save these great populations. People of Washington, meet us next Thursdday night at half past 7 o'clocL to pray for this coming of the Holy Ghost-not for a pentecostal 3,000, that I have referred to, but 30,000. Such a fire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crunching through the snows of Labrador to the Caribbean sea, where the whirlwinds are born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the blank verse poet of the Bible: "0 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." Let the battlecry, be Wash ington for God, the United States for God, America for God, the world for God: We are all tired of skirmishing. Let us bring on a general engage ment. Wo are tired of fishing with hook and line. With one sweep of the gospel net let us take in many thous ands. This vast woik must begin fomewhere. Why not here? Some one must give the rallying cry. Why may not I, one of the Lord's servants? By providential arrangement I am every week in sermonic communica tion with every city, town and neigh borhood of this country, and I now give.the watchword to north and south and east and west. Hear and see it. all people-this call to a forward movement, this call to i-epentance and faith, this call to a continental awak ening ! This generation will soon be out of sight. Where are the mighty men of the past who trod your Pennsylvania avenue and spake in yonder national legislature and decided the stupendous questions of the supreme judiciary? Ask the sleepers in the Congressional cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all over the land. Their tongues 'are speechless, their eyes closed, their arms folded, their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed. How soon time prorogues parliaments, and adjourns senates, and disbands cabinets, and empties pulpits, and dismisses genera tions: What we must do we must do quickly or not do at all. I call upon people who cannot come forth from their sickbeds to implore the heavens in our behalf from their midnight pil lows, and I call upon the aged who cannot, even by the help of their staff, enter the churches to spend their last days on earth in supplicating the sal vation of this nation, and I call upon all men and women who have been in furnaces of trouble, as was Shadrach, and among lions, as was Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as was Jere miah, to join in the prayer, and let the church of God everywhere lay hold of the Almighty arm that moves na tions. Then senators of the United States will announce to the state legislatures that sent them here, and members of the house of representatives will re port to the congressional districts that elected them, and the many thousands of men and women now and here en gaged in the many departments of national service will write home, tell ing all sections of the country that the Lord is here, and that he is on the march for the redemption of America. Halleluiah, the Lord is coming: I hear the rumbling of his chariot wheels. I feel on my cheeks the Vie tor: I see the flnsh ~of his lanterns through the long night of the world's sin and sorrow: We want in this country. only on a ries have seen of God's workings,as in the reformation of the sixteenth cen tury, when Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon led on; as in the awak ening of the seventeenth century, when Bunvan and Flavel and Baxter led on: as in the awakening of the eighteenth century, when Tennant and Edwards and the Wesleys led on: as in the awakening of 1857, led on by Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Meth odist, and Bishop MacIlvaine, the Apostolic Episcopalian. and Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presbyterian, and others, just as good, in all de nominations. Oh, will not some of those glorious souls of the past come down and help us? Come down off your thrones, Nettleton and Finney and Daniel Baker and Edward Payson and Truman Osborne and Earle and Knapp and Inskip and Archibald Al exander-that Alexander the '-reat of the Christian churcbes. Come down! How can you rest up there when the world is dying for lack of the gospel? Come down and agonize with us in prayer. Come down and help us preach in our pulpits. Come down and inspire our courage and faith. Heaven can get along without you better than we can. But more than all-and overwhelmed with reverent em:>tion we ask it-come. thou of the deeply dyed garments of Bozrah, trav eling in the greatness of the strength, mighty tn save! Lord God of Joshua: Let the sun of this century stand still above Gibeon and the moon above the valley of Ajalon until we can whip out the five kings of hell, tumbling down the precipices as the other five kings went over the rocks of Betliho ron. Ha. ha! It will so surely be done that I cannot restrain the laugh of triumph. From where the seaweed is tossed on the beach by the stormy Atlantic to the sands laved by the quiet Pacific, this country will be Emanuel's land, the work beginning at Washington, if we have the faith and holy push and the consecration requisite. First of all, we ministers must get right. That was a startlir g utterance of Mr. Swin nock when he said, "It is a doleful thing to fall into hell from under the pulpit; but oh, how dreadful a thing to drop thither out of the pulpit." That was an all suggestive thing that Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Lest that by any means, when [ have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." That was an inspiring motto with which Whitefield sealed all his letters, "We seek the stars." Lord God: Wake up all our pulpits, and then it will be when Venn preach ed, and it was said that men fell be fore the word like slacked lime. Let us all, laymen and clergymen, to the work. What Washington wants most of all is an old fashion ed revival of religion,but on a vaster scale, so that the world will be com pelled to say, as of old, "We never saw it on this fashion." But remem ber there is a human side as well as a divine side to a revival. Those of :is brought up in the country know what is called "a raising"-the neighbors gathered together to lift the heavy frame for a new house after the timbers are ready to be put into their places. It is dangerous work, and there are many accidents. The neigh bors had gathered for such a raising, and the beams had all been fitted to their places except one, and that very heavy. That one, on the long pikes of the men, had almost reached its place when something went wrong, and the men could hoist it no higher. But if it did not go in its place it would fall back upon the men who were lift ing it. It had already begun to settle back. The boss carpenter shouted: "Lift, men, or die! All together! Yo -heave!" With mightier push they tried to send the beam to its place, but failed. Still they held on, all the time their strength lessening. The wives and mothers and daughters stood in horror looking on. Then the boss carpenter shouted to the women, "Come and help !" They came, and womanly arms be came the arms of giants, for they were lifting to save the lives of husbands and fathers and sons as well as their own. Then the boss carpenter mount ed one of the beams and shouted: "Now! Aitogether! Lift or die! Yo, heave !" And with a united effort that almost burst the blood vessels the great beam went to its place, and a wild huzza was heard. That is the way it sometimes seems in the church es. Temples of righteousness are to be reared, but there is a halt, a stop, a catch somewhere, A few are lifting all they can, but we want more hands at this raising and more hearts, more Christian men to help-aye, more Christian women to re-enforce. If the work fail, it means the death of many souls. All together! Mea and wo men of God! Lift or die! The top stone must come to its place "with shoutings of grace, grace unto it." God is ready to do his part. Are we ready to do our part? There is work not only for the knee of prayer, but for the shoulder of upheaval. And now I would like to see this hour that which I haye never seen, but hope to see-a whole audience saved under one flash of the Eternal Spirit. Before you go out of any of these doors enter the door of mercy. Father and mother, come in and bring your children wit b you. Newly mar ried folks, consecrate your lifetime to God and be married for eternity as well as time. Young man you will want God before you get through this world, and you want him now. Young woman, without God this is a hard world for women. One and all, wherever you sit or stand I lift my voice so that you can hear it, out in the corridors and on the street, and say, in the words of the Mediterran ean ship captain, "Call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." Oh, what news to tell; what news to relate to your old father and mother; what news to telegraph your friends on the other side of the mountains; what news with which to thrill your loved ones in heaven! It was of such news that a man read in a noonday meeting in Philadelphia. He arose, and unrolling a manuscript read: Where'er we meet, you always say: "What's ths news? What's the news? Pray what's the order of the day? What's the newt? What's the news?" Oh. I have got good news to tell My haviour hath done all things well And triumphed over death and hell That's the ne ws! That's the ne ws! The Lamb was slain on Calvary-. That's the news! 'That's the news! To set a world of sinners free That's the news! 'That's the news! The Lord has pardoned all my sin That's the news! Thats the news! I f.eel the witness now within That's the news! That's the news! And since He took my sins away. And taught me how to watch and pray, I'm happy now fiom day to day 'That's the n sws! That'? the news! And Chri st the Lord can save you, too 'Iha t Ethe I eww! Trhat'stbe news! our sinful heart be can renew That's the ne~ws! That's the news! This momen t, if for sins you grieve, 'This moment if you do behieve, A full acquittal you'll receive That's tne news! That'sthenews! And now. if any one should say, "What's the news? What' the news'."' Oh. tell him you've berun to pray That's the news! That's the news! That you have joined the con quering band, And now with .joy at God's command, Your're marching to the better land That' the news! That's he news! THE DISPENSARY LAW. GOVERNOR EVAN'S SPECIAL MESSAGE ON THAT SUBJECT. Review of the Operatiorm of the System. Suggestions Lookin: to its Better En forcement. COLUMBIA. Feb. 11.-Special: Gov ernor Evans' message on the Dispen sary law was read in the General As sembly yesterday. It embodies an exhaustive review of the operation and the effects of the system: He says: Gentlemen of the General Assembly: In 1892 the dispensary law was enact ea as a solution of the vexed and much discussed whiskey problem. All reasonable men acting in the light of the experience of other States, ac knowledge that prohibition is imprac ticable so long as whiskey is r-garded as a legitimate article of commerce by the national government. It can only be cherished as an ideal theory and must be classed with other utopi an ideas. The drinking habit is re cognized by all civilized governments as an evil, nd one that is peculiarly within the province of legislative ac tion. This action must be from the nature of the evil directed to the removal of the cause, as we can not prohibit men from gratifying their tastes and thirsts. We can punish men for destroying the life, limb or property of others and to some extent restrain their actions, but we can no more legislate the taste for whiskey out of an old tover than we can jeal ousy out of the human heart. As long as a stimulant is craved b; the human appetite and as long as whis key is distilled in North Carolina the drinkers of South Carolina will have it, law or no law. 1 have never dreamed of reforming a druukard by law or moral suasion. For the habit once formed is a disease, a physical condition which cannot cure. We must address ourselves then to the con dition that confronts us and not theo rize on ideal government. The first object should be to prevent this habit from being formed by the young citi zens; second, tc eliminate drunken ness; third, to so gratify the thirst of the old toper as to make the unobjec tionable to sober citizens. We claim that the dispensary law has practically accomplished the first and second objects; the third can only be fully accomplished by the death of the subject. When death occurs and the nation al government outlaws whiskey and alcoholic beverage, then, and not un til then, will prohibition be practica ble. The law in this State has had a hard road. It has been opposed by the United States courts with partisan judges and by a few of our own citi zens with rifles and shotguns, but so far it has prevailed, and is now writ ten in the organic law of this State, and better, on the hearts ef the peoplA. It may be said now to be the settled policy of the State. Its experimental stage is over and I am happy to inform you that in only one city of the State have the people refused to accept it as such. I have been requested by a represen tative of the Gospel Temperance league to ask you to amend the law so as to allow whiskey to be sold only for med icinal, pharmaceutical and mechanical purposes, or in other words, to repeal the dispensary law and adopt what was rejected by your honorable body and knaown as the Nettles bill. I ca not do this for reasons which must be apparent to you and which I stated while a member of the senate and for the further reason that the dispensary is succeeding beyond the expectations of its friends, and to pass such a law as requested would not accomplish what the dispensary is n'ow doing, but would simply increase the crime of perjury and false representation in the State. I would not be understood as objecting to the agitation of prohibi tion nor to restricting the sale of whis key by any means. It is beneficial to all governments to have idealists, for if not, we might lose sight of the prin ciple and cease striving for the covet ed goal. As a moral reform measure the dis pensary must commend itself to any unprejudiced mind. The temptations to the youths of the State offered by the saloon have been swept away and with it have gone the games of bil liards, pool, the faro banks and the corrupt influence of the barkeeper in municipal and State elections. During the late holi days there occurred only one homi cide in the State and this was not from whiskey, but an old feud. This re cord has never been known before. Not a case of the crime for which lynching is resorted to or an attempt at such has occurred within the past year. Two circuses travresed the State during the past year, visiting all arge towns of importance, and with the exception of Spartanburg not an arrest was made for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. In Greenville one arrest was made for drunkenness and he was exhibited as a curiosity. It was the invariable practice of the co'l ored population to drink on circus days, but it passed away with bar room customs. I despatched four con stables to follow the circuses in their tour through the State, but they were not needed to preserve the peace, and not an accident of any kind was re ported. The Governor then sums up the re ports of mayors, intendants and otner municipal officers to whom he applied for information, as follows: It ap pears from these reports that drunk enness has decreased for the entire State 50 per cent.; the number of cases tried in mayors' courts for drunkenness and disorderly conduct has decreased 6G and 9-16ths per cent. The consumption of whiskey has de creased 47 6-7 per cent. It must be observed that this decrease is not for the entire period since the ena.tment of the law, but for the past year. Compared with the preceding year 25 per cent. may be added as a reasonable estimate for that year. It is quite encouraging to the friends of the law to note the general change of sentiment in most of the towns in its favor. The country has always been a unit in favor of it and has demanded its strict enforcement. The bitterest enemies of the system now admit that morally speaking it is a g:and suc cess. THE DISPENSARY As A BU'SINESS. In 1892-93 there were in the State 69 dispensaries. The total amount purchased by them, $671,555.99; sales at invoice price, $573,578.28- total sales to consumers, $679,222.88S: gross profits, $165,335.40; expenses, $88,5S0, 15: net profits, $70,775.25. The operations of the State and county dispensaries for the past year have been peculiarly successful. The volume of business has greatly in creased . The sales by county dispen sers for the 11 months ending Dec. 31 amounted to nearly $1,10,000. The net profit that has accrued to the State from the operation of the State dispen sary for the 11 months ending Dec. 31 amounts to $132,167.77, and the net profits to the towns and counties from the operations of the sub-dispensaries for the corresponding period amounts to $106,131.28, making a total of ac crued profits to the State and towns and counties for the 11 months of $239,599.05 adding the $.25,571.85 un in hands of county dispensaries at the close o1 the past year it would swell the total of earned and unearned'prof its to the State and towns and counties for the 11 months to the amount of $265. 170.90. The net profits accruing to the State as revised to Dec. 31 from the begin ning of the operations of the dispensa ry to the close of ex-Commissioner Traxler's term on Jan. 31, 1895, amounted to $1100,348.80. Added to this the net accrued profits of $133, 467.77 for the period of 11 months from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31, 1895, makes a total of net accrued profits to the State from the operation of the State dispen sary to the amount of $243,816.57. The books of the State commissioner as is shown in his annual report and also by the special legislative exa min ing committee show that at the close of the past year the total assets (at cost price) of the State dispensary were $314,070.24 and the total liabilities $76,253.67. These assets consists of: Cash.....................$ 54,107 13 Wines and liquors at the State dispensary........ 55,631 56 Teams and wagons........ 800 65 Machinery and office. tix tures................... 2,656 47 Bottles corks and cooperage 26,5S1 43 Cash loaned to the State treasurer............... .50,000 00 Wines and liquors at sub- . dispensaries......... 116,235 65 Personal accounts ........ 8,057 45 Making total available as setsof............ .$314,070 24 Outstanding against these assets are liabilities to the amount of $70,253.67, which is due by the State for wines and liquors purchased, making a net balance of assets above liabiliLies of $242.816.57, which amount represents the net earned profit to the State at the close of the year and this profit has been placed by the commissioner to the credit of the general fund of the State. In conformity to a clause in the new Constitution providing that all future earnings of the State dispen sary shall go to the schoois of the State the commissioner will place to the credit of the school fund all net earnings which shall hereafter accrue. From a caretul analysis of that provi sion of Constitution it -will be seen that the school fund will not be enti tled to any portion of the net earnings of the dispensary until Dec. 31 of $243,816.57 shall have been covered into the State treasury to the credit of the general fund. Hence it will be 18 months at the ear liest before we may expect auy in crease in the school fund from this source. I am happy to state that the State appropriation of $50,000 has been refunded from the net earnings of the dispensary to pay the expenses of the constitutional convention. The Governor next states that neces sary improvements have been made in the methods of book-keeping. ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. The expense of the constabulary has been more than met by the value of the contraband whiskey and wines seized and the suporession of the illicit traffic in such. The amount for main taining the force was $43,032.01. The value placed on contraband dumped was $17,031.70, leaving a net cost for maintenance of $20,000.37. The value placed upon contraband seized does not represent the true value of the ar ticles captured, as there is a large amount still on hand of goods unsuit able for the business of the dispensary and consequently are of no actual value. I am satisfied that no State of ficers are entitled to more commenda tion than these men who do not hesi tate to risk their lives, and in several instances have lost them in defense and in executing the laws of this State. If it were not for the espionage of these officers the blind tigers would be ram p ant and the dispensaries would not be self-sustaining. If the present im provement in public sentiment in the towns and cities continues, I am satis fled the constabulary can be safely cut down to one half the present force at the end of another year. The governor is empowered to em ploy two chief State constables and as many State constables as may be ne cessary to enforce the law. Upon my induction into office I determined to recognize the constabulary, and, if possible, dispense with it altogether. After trying a small force for a month, I found that it was impracticable, and unless the force was increased, the ex ecution of the law would be a failure. Wherever the constables were with drawn from a town or county, imme diately petitions would be sent me re questing their return. For the yeair ending the first of June, 1895, there were issued by the United States revenue collector, S05 licenses to retail liquor. This includes 85 dispensaries, which leaves fcr illheit dealers 720. For the year ending June 1st, 1896, there have been issued so far 3S7 licenses. This includes 8S dispen saries, leaving a total of 299 for illicit dealers. Of this number 167 were taken out in the city of Charleston-ten of which were for the dispensaries, which being deducted, leaves a grand total of 157 illicit dealers in that city. It will be seen from these figures that over 52 per cent. of the illicit traf fic is carried on in the city- of Charleston. It will be further observed that the number of United States licenses issued for the entire State has decreased over 41 per cent. for the past year. Governor Evans then reviews the proceedings before Judge Simonton, and says: In order to comply with the inter pretation of the interestate commerce law by this United States judge, I would respectfully recommend that the law be amended by declaring that all alcoholic liquors except when analyzed by the State chemist and found to be chemically pure are detri mental to the health, morals and wel fare of the citizens of this State. are contraband and liable to seizure, wher ever found, without a warrant and when seized shall be forwarded to the State commissioner and by him de stroyed. This would cover the objec tion of Judge Simonton and would re lieve the law of a continual warfare by the whiskey ring. A.MENDMENTS. The governor recommends that two members of the State Board of Control be elected by the Legislature, and then concludes: The system of operating dispensaries since the inauguration of the new form of bookkeeping is as near perfect as you can make it. D~uring the past year we have discovered three defalca tions among county dispensers. They have been reported to the attorney general and he has entered suit upon the bonds and commenced criminal process against the dispensers. It is but just to state that these defalcations occurred during the year previous to the inauguration of the Scruggs' sys tem of bookkeeping. I apprehend no further trouble on this line. I would recommend that the county supervisor be taken off t he county board of control, as under the new Constitution he is ineligible, and be sides the duties of his oflice are incon sistent with those of the dispensary and if he attends to them properly lie will have but little time to devote to the business. I desire to impress upon you the advisability of divorcing the dispensary from aoy other otlice or State institution, so that the responsi - bility for its management and success upon the shoulders of onlicers appointed to look after it exclusively. In conclusion permit me to say that I feel a peculiar anxiety and interest in the success of this institution by reason of my connection with the en actment of the law while a member of your honorable body and without any hesitation or apparent egotism on my part, I do not believe that any future governor will feel towards the law and guard itas s-rupulously as my prede cessor and myself. For these reasons. I have endeavored to talk to you plainly and point out what I sincere ly believe iecessary to perpetuat: a law so wise salutary. Chinese Cannibabi. VIcroRIA, 13. C.. Feb. 12.-Dreadful stories come from Yokohama of the treatment of Japanese by Formosa rebels, some correspondents going so far as to say that the Chinese practice cannibalism. Early in January the rebels took possession of the village of K _,ng. A detachment of Japanese was sent to attack the place and after considerable opposition succeeded in driving the rebels off and entering the village, which was afterward fired. The correspondent of the Japan Mail in speaking of the arrival of the Japa nese troops in the village says: "The troops were horrified at the ghastly spectacle of niineteen bodies of their countrymen beheaded and frighfully mangled. They were railr way work men who had met death at the hands of the fiends. "Many of your readers may not be aware of the cannibalism that exists among the Chinese, altough thsre is probably not a foreigner in Formosa but knows of the eating of portions of the bodtes by savages, or of the mrrkets in Formosan settle ments contain inx h uman flesh fnr ae. During the outbreak of 1si, s: gtreat was the loss of life that savage llesh was brought in and sold the same as pork in the markets. The mutilated bodies of Japanese were found, several of tnem disemboweled and with their hearts cut out, also minus their parts. Some were found who had been burned at the stake. Charred bodies with hands and feet still fastened were some of the spectacles the soldiers saw." Another Bray. LOWELL, MASS.. Feb. 12.-In the course of his address at the annual en campment of the Massachusetts Grand Army of the Republic to-day, Com mander Thayer alluded to the dedica tion of a Confederate monument in Chicago on last Memorial Day. He said: "The lesson taught by the mon ument is an erroneous one; this statue of a Confedei-ate soldier, which they placed upon it in brass with wasted body, infended as an implication that our government maltreated its prison ers, is a standing falsehood and the dedication of the memorial upon a day which we have !et apart for mem orial services in honor of our fallen comrades was an insult to every man who wore the blue. My protest was sustained by the posts of this depart ment and by thousands of loyal men all over the country. Do not let them use the monument at Chicago as an entering wedge for other cities of the loyal North. We may join with them in extolling the heroism of the people of the South, but we must not be asked to countenance or to palpitate the gigantic crime which they commit ted in seeking the destruction of the Union, or to allow attempts to distort the facts of history to go unrebuked. If they are as loyal as they say they are, let them forsake the errors of the past and not seek to perpetuate them." Pearson and Talbert Hitch. The Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observersaysthat while the silver debate was on in the House, Representative Pearson, Republican of North Carolina, indulged in a sneer at the expenses of South~Carolina for the part which she took in provoking the war of sesessions. This allusion angered Mr. Talbert, Democrat, of South Carolina, who declared in a great state of excitement, that South Carolina was right in the position which she took. "I am ashamed of any man who en dorses secession or the motives which lay behind it," Mr. Pearson said. "I endore it," Mr. Talbert exclaim ed, "I endorse every word of seces sion." "It has been said," Mr. Pearson went on, "that if hell ever breaks lcose in this country it will break loose in South Carolina and so I be lieve it." The spectators in the gallery took sides in this angry altercation, ap plauding now the one and row the other combatant Mr. Talbert had the last word de claring that "South Carolina never has been whipped, and never will be~ whipped." Goldern Resolutions. How many good resolutions are broken during these January days: As the midnight bells ring out the old and ring in the new year, how many thousands of penitent inebriates promise themselves to lead better lives and for weeks and days thereafter struggle manfully against the tyrant that runs riot through their veins: But lesh is wveak and alcohol is strong and as the days go by the craving for drink becomes so great that few of the struggling thousands can resist it, and, one by one, they fall hopelessly mto the old ways until another mile stone shall give them pause. To the weak but willing among us the Keeley Institute of South Carolina is a goa send. The gold cure is "not gold that litters," but it shines like a benedic tion in the faces of the liberated-the free!I Make, by all means, your good resolutions, but back yourself with the gold to be had only in South Carolina at the Keeley Institute in this city. The State. Got A Ulack Set. WAsmsai~ToN, Feb. 13.-A motion of Mr. Morrill in the Senate today to take up the House tariff bill was de feated by a vote of 29 to 21. Wheth er the vote has any special signiflcance or not, the action today is a marked temporary backset to the bill, to say the least. The~ , it was accomplish ed through the solid Democratic and Popuistic vote, aided by the votes of four Republican silver senators -Tell er of Colorado, Mantle and Carter of Montana, and Dubois of Idaho. Mr. Brice, although paired with Mr. Wol cott, voted against taking up the bill. Mr. Brice voted under a mnisapprehen sion, but his vote did not emet the re sult, save in increasing the mnaj'rity slightly. Brutal Act of a l'reach-:r. MORRILLToN, AR~K., Fe b. '..-If. 1i. Honevcutt, living six muile's west of here, 'killed a 10 months old chiild of a widow wh whio kept house for him, last evening. Hloneycuitt came into the house when the child was ring. lHe picked the little one up. gave it a slap on the head, then shook it, breaking its neck. A warrant was sworn out late this afternoon and olii cers are now searching for him. IT is stated that in the past eleven months the constables in Charleston have seized 13.00U0 gallons of liquor, and that as a result of this contiscation they have been more than self-sustain ing, and in place of costing the State money have, through the liquor seiz ed, turned ducats into the <ispensaryv THE SUB IEASURY DEA). IT PASSES AWAY IN SAD OBSCURI TY. Irother Itowden Itringis the New.' of Its Dea-4,e--.National Alliance Throwing !)ecayvetl ilanks Overboard---Ready for Fusion. Corrum~A. S. C., Feb. 10.-Mr. J. W. Bowden, who has been in attend ance on the National Alliance meeting in Washington ws in the city yester (jay on his way home to Den ver, in Anderson county. When he was seen, he gave the following interest ing interview: --What about the National Alliance meeting-" Mr. Bowden was asked. "Well, to be candid, the meetiog was better than I expected, both in poin-: of attendance and the general condition of the organization. Seven teen States were represented and sev eral others reported, showing the traas ury in good condition, which is a good indication of the life if the organiza tion. Major Mann Page of Virginia, who was elected the new president. is a strong man and well known to Aili ancemen everywhere, as he has been conr.ected with the order since its in ceotion. Mr. Southworth of Colerado, the new secretary, will also make a very competent official. The majority of the delegates regretted very much to give up Col. D. P. Duncan as secre tary, as his efficieat work was highly aupreciated, but it has been the un dritten law to divide the. officers among the various sections reprerent ed." " hat about the political signifl cance of the meeting" "I don't know that it had any spec ial political significance, but from the anxious inquiries of Washington re porters, it seemed that it was expected to create some kind o1 a hiatus or slap somebody in the face. Of course, no nolitical action was taken, and the onily thing that shoved a tendency to t >uch politics was some small changes in the 'demands-' It seems very hard for some of our friends to understand how an organization can be interest ed in political affairs and yet take no part in partisan politics." "What changes were made in the demands?" "Well, the only significant chanae made in the demands was the elimi nation of the sub-treasury and also the demand for $50 per capita. These parts of t'ie demands had come to be looked on as details of legislation and did not have a place in the demands of the farmers' organization. The land plank and the railroad plank were made to read as they did origi nally. In reality, the financial de mands of the Alliance perfectly accord with the views of all currency re formers." "Did you attend the silver confer ence ? "Yes I attended the sessions throu g the two days and was much gratified at the earnest determination of those present for a straight, square fight for the white metal and government issue of currency without regard to party. The conference was composed of Re publicans and Democrats, organized Populists taking no part in it. It was determined to organize a silver fight in every State at once. A national convention was called to meet in St. Louis on July 22, the same date and place of meeting as the Populist na tional convention, as the opinion is that there will be a joining of forces there. A national committee, com posed of one member from each State was appointed and a chairman, who is Dr. J. J. Mott of North Carolina, was put in charge of headquarters as Washington. This national commit tee will only act until the meeting of the national convention, when one will be elected in its stead." "Will South Carolina be organized ?" "Yes, I was placed on the commit tee as representing this State and will proceed to get in touch with all those in sympathy with the objects of the movement. I will only act, however, until a State chairman can be selected. When a chairman is selected, there will probably be headquarters estab lished and the work actively pushed. For the present, I will answer all in quiries from my home office." "What effect will this have on the May 'Democratic' convention?" 'I do not know. We do not intend to fight against or try to interfere with that body in any way. We only intend to build a house of refuge for the lost sheep when they are turned out of the Cleveland pasture." "D~Jid the South Carolina congress men attend the conference: " None but Congressman McLaurin He took a very prominent part in the deliberations and was on the comnmit tee that wrote the declaratio~n and res olution."-State. Uncle sam Partic, lar. The government is getting more particular every day as to the charac ter of its public servants, par ticularly those in the postotlice depart ment. There have been many require ments in a physical way of applicants for clerkships and carriers' position. but after the February examination the restrictions will be more numner ous thtan ever. The applicants must furnish a physician's certificate, under the old examination, of good heart, lungs and legs, sight, hearing, etc.: 'ut the latest requirement of the civil service commission is as follows: Male applicants who are under 5 feet 4 inches in height or under 125 pounds in weight will not be accepted for the position of clerk or of carrier in the postolice service, an~d such local boards of examiners are authorized to cancel applications from applicants who are under the prescribed height and weight, or concerning whom the answer to questions 6, 10, 20. and 21 (or any one of them) are not satisfac tory. No doubt this will debar many of the prospective applicants. Ques tions 6i, i10, 2u, and 21 refer to sight. raptures, and to the capacity of the applicant to stand prolonged physical strain and f reedom from disease in general. Trains Crash Together. ST. Louts, F~eb. 11--A special to The Chronicle from Cairo, Ills., says that passenge-r train No. 22 and freightI train No. 55 on the illiuois Central railroad crashed together this morn ig ata principal midway between Wetang and Dongola. Engineer William Hfuntington and Baggage Master Felix Armstrong of the pas senger train and both firemen were killed. All four lived in Centralia, Ills. A number of passengers were injured slightly. The passenger train had orders to wait at 'Wetang for the freight train, but Conductor Andre'. dms thought the freight train had passed and started ahead at full speed. shot by a RteligiouN Fanatic. Davis, a colored farmer, was fatally lubbed and shoL last night at clock at Lewis' station, this county. by Lee Crutchlfield, a white "santi fica tionist." ThE y were discussing scrip tre and Davis could not agree with Crtch:ield, who has a reputation of being a crank. At this the latter be ame infuriated. and seizing an axe handle dealt the negro a blow on the ead, which broke his skull. lie then rewx a revolver and shot him once POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder Highest of all in leavening strenzth-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Bakina Powder Company, 106 Wall St. N. Y. Delegates Appointed. CoLMIlA, S. C., Feb. 13.-Gover nor Evans has received a letter from the provisional committee of the Chi cago and Southern- States exposition as follows: "At a meeting of the executive com mittee held Feb. 8, the following was unaiimousIy adopted: S'Resoled That in addition to the Sdelegates provided for from the south ern cities as suggested and agreed upon by the mayor and council of I Chicago, the governors of the south ern States be authorized to appoint 10 delegates at large from each State to represent the agricultural, manufac turing, mining, commercial and rail road interest of the South in the con vention called to meet at Chicago on I the 19th instant and that the governor of each State to accompany hisdelega tion. "In accordance with this resolution 'you are requested to appoint delegates ~on behalf of your State." Governor Evaus appointed the fol lowing as representatives from this State to attend the convention on the 19th inst.: E. L. Roche. M. B. Mc Sweeney. D. H. Russell, W. A. Clark, J. C. Wilborn, W. D. Evans, G. B. Kittrel): at large, W. A. Courteney and T. H. Remmie. Free transportation to Chicago and return will be supplied to delegates by the principal railroads. Mr. Howard H. Statford is the secretary of the pro visional committee with headquarters at Augusta, Ga. All desired informa tion can be obtained by corresponding with him. Senator Tillman's Position. WASHGDTON, Feb. 13.-Since his speech in the Senate, Senator Tillman 'of South Carolina has read numerous letters from Democrats appealing to him to state his position, otherwise his speech in the Senate would be of great harm to the party. In reply toa letter from a friend in South Carolina, Senator Tillman writes as follows and pats himself on record withouta doubt: "I have your letter of February 5. and appreciate very much your kind I words of commendation. In order to preserve the unity of the white Demo cracy of S-uth Carolina we cannot act on yorsuggoestion not to send del egates to the national convention at Chicago. We have already captured the State Democracy and we must go to Chicago as such, prepared to bolt if need be and ally ourselves with the free silver men of the West. It would be a fatal blunder not to send delegates to the national Democratic convention ani would only be putting it in the hands of our goldbug ene mies. If the 1national convention does not adopt a platform to suit us and put on a ma above suspicion as to his loyalty, we canoten laethe party, but not be fr.The effort of every true. friend of silver and financial reform should be directed to having our State Demo cratic convention composed solidly of men of their way of thinking, so as to have it act as a unit." Forty People Drowrned. BRisB.aSE, Queensland, Feb. 13. The steamer 1'earl, having on board S0 persons, met with a peculiar acci dent today that resulted in the death of 40l persons. The Brisbane river has been greatly swollen by heavy rains that have fallen lately and the current is running very strong. The Pearl was not powerful enough to stem the current and was swung broadside on and carried down the river. Before she could get head way enough on tocarry her out of danger, she was carried athwart the chains of the Lucinda, which waslying at anchor in the stream. The Pearl struck the chains with such force that she was almost completely cut in two. Then the current turned her over and she san it. Before she went down, how ever, a vast column of steam was seen ascending from her and it was after wards learnied that her steam pipes had been broken. Many of t hose on her lowver deck were fatally scalded while 40 others were drown~ed. The work of rescuing the survirors was extremely dillicult, as they were car ried sea ward with great rapidity by tihe 11ocd. Thousands gathered about the scene- of the disaster and there were many affecting scenes as the liv ing and dead were brought ashiore. Some of the bodies will never be re covered. -A Capsized Schooner. CEDAR KEYs, Fia., Feb. 13.-Infor mation from the capsized schooner re ported off Anclote island to the effect that she lies bottom uip in 1S feet of water-. A number of sxilii vessels surrou ad her and haee cut through - her Uuetom and are taking out her car go of lumber. Her name has not been learned, as she lies deep in wa ter. No trace of her cr-,'v ha~s been found, and as they could eaily have made land had they t:sken to) their boats, it is feared they wvere drowned when the vessel capsized. The broken masts, with all sails set, are floating alongside, held by the rigging. The sails being set indicate that she cap sized without warning. The vessel's bottom shows as that of a compara tiely new one. Done with Dyz~nmit&-. NEW OnrE.~Ns, Fe b. 11.-A dispatch to the Daily States from San Antonio, Tex., says: This morning the shoe shop of Henry Johnson, co)lored, was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite, which broke tile windows in the large Presbyterian church and convention hall buildings and shook the entire city. Johnson and a white man were asleep in the b)uildinlg, but were not injured. Enemies of Johnson are sspected, on account of domestic. troubles. Several previous attempts have been made to kill him. L.ynchin;; in Illinos. Di-cx~m-n, 11!., Feb. 12.-Grant At terbury was lynched at Sullivan at 2:43 last night. Fif teen masked men broke open the jail and hiung him in the court house yard lie died declar ing that he was innocent of the double rime of murdering his father and utraging his sisier-in lawv, Mrs. R-.xy Attebury. Members or the mob were fully armed, anud several c-aried sledge ammers. They made- a~ttempt little at :oncealment, but went very directly